It’s amazing how much play one little Snapple cap can get over time. Take “Real Fact” cap #266, supposedly retired, which states that “Manhattan is the only borough in NYC that does have a Main Street”. Any Roosevelt Island resident knows this statement to be absurd but every so often the issue comes up again to perennially make us to be the Rodney Dangerfield of Main Street NYC lore. Today this “fact” was again memorialized in the NY Times Metropolitan Diary. The Diarist, rose to our aid, and corrected amused life long City girl Judi Sinnreich, who obviously has never set foot on our shores.
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Monday, March 30, 2009
The Periodic Return of the Snapple Cap
It’s amazing how much play one little Snapple cap can get over time. Take “Real Fact” cap #266, supposedly retired, which states that “Manhattan is the only borough in NYC that does have a Main Street”. Any Roosevelt Island resident knows this statement to be absurd but every so often the issue comes up again to perennially make us to be the Rodney Dangerfield of Main Street NYC lore. Today this “fact” was again memorialized in the NY Times Metropolitan Diary. The Diarist, rose to our aid, and corrected amused life long City girl Judi Sinnreich, who obviously has never set foot on our shores.
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Main Street, Roosevelt Island: “No Respect”
Well it’s happened again. The New York Times, May 2, 2008, in referring to Main Street in Flushing indicated that it was the only Main Street in New York City and forgot that Main Street, Roosevelt Island even exists. At least this time as opposed to the above Snapple Cap ("Real Fact" Cap # 266) we were in good company as the reporter forgot about our fellow New York City “Main Street”s located in the Bronx, Brooklyn, and on Staten Island. The New York Times issued a correction and amended the original article.
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